Machine for measuring ribbon, &amp;c.



PATENTED APR. 1,1903.

'B. KOHN, MACHINE FOR MEASURING RIBBON, 6w.

AIPPLIGATIONTILED JAN. 2, 1902.

2 SHEETSSHEET 1.

N0 MODEL.

No. 725,972. PATENTED APR, '21, 1903.

v v B. KOHN. MAGHINE FOR MEASURING RIBBON, &0. APPLICATION I'ILED JAN. 2, 1902. no MODEL. I I 2 sums-sum z.

NlTED STATES.

PATE T Curios.

BRUNO KOHN, OF LEIPZIG, GERMANY.

MACHINE FOR MEASURING RlBBON,'&.o.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 725,972, dated April 21, 1903.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BRUNO KOI-IN, merchant,

of 16 Katharinenstrasse, Leipzig,- in the German Empire, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following state'- ment.

This invention relates to a machine for measuring off ribbon and thelike into lengths, which also enables the desired length of ribbon to be cutoff and wound up ready for immediate delivery to a purchaser. The improved machine has also the further advantage that when it has been set to'a determined measurement it does not require any special attention, so that the operator can attend to other matters.

With the present method of measuring oft ribbon and the like with the aid of a yardmeasure mistakes cannot be entirely avoided. In shops the shop assistant is compelled to give his or her Whole attention to the meas uring operation, and yet the purchaser has vno certainty that he or she has received the sectional plan of the improved machine. Fig. 3 is an end elevation, and Fig. 4 a cross-sec tion, of the machine.

The improved machine has two rollers a b. The lower roller a is mounted in fixed bearings,while the upperroller b can be lifted or turned up to allow of the ribbon c or the like goods which it is desired to measure being inserted between the two rollers aand b. The roller a is driven by clockwork d in such a manner that the roller a will make a determined number of revolutions corresponding to the length of ribbon which is to be measured off. The spring 6 for driving the clockwork is fixed to an axle f, and a lever 9 is mounted on the front end of this axle for winding up the spring 6. The handle 71 of the lever g has fixed to it a pawl-i and can be moved for a small distance in a slot is.

' ,Before the apparatus is used the lever gis in its new position, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1.

In using the machine to measure off a determined length of ribbon the lever g is set to the number on the scale, Fig. 1, indicating the said length-say, nine yardsbut before the lever g is turned for that purpose the handle h is moved in the slot it, so as to move the pawl i out of engagement with the teeth of the toothed wheel Z. In this manner the connection between the lever g and the clockwork is broken and the setting of the lever to the aforesaid number acts only to wind up the spring 6. When the lever g has been then pulled back bya spring we, so as to bring the pawl i into engagement with the toothed wheel Z. The spring e,which is now wound up,

ficient to move the lever g into its zero position.

the'like from moving beyond the zero position. The spring has still. some force left in it when the lever g is in the zeroposition. Each time fth e lever 9 moves into its zero position it opof the completion of the measuring of one length. The lever g carries a projecting pin :20, which strikes the arm 00 for ringing the bell. -The ribbon has now to be cut by the operator. This is 'done by means of a scissors-like instrument, having its bottom blade 0 fixed to the machine, while the top bladep can be moved down from outside by means of a handle q.

r is a drum or the like for winding up the length of ribbon which has been measured oil; If this drum is made of exactly the same diameter as the roller a, these two parts may be connected together, preferably by means of an intermediate friction-disk. It must be taken into consideration that the effective diameter of the drum is increased by the ribbon wound on it.

The machine is operated as follows: The roller 1) is raised or turned up and the ribbon c is passed from the roll of ribbon over the roller a, through the cutting instrument 0p, to the highest part of the drum 1', to which it is fixed or on which it is clipped fast by any convenient means. Theroller b is now turned correctly set, the handle h is released and is erates a hell it, and thus notifies the operator will now drive the clockwork to anextent suf- The lever g is prevented by means of a stop or down and the lever g is set to the number indicating the determined length by being rotated in the direction indicated by the arrow A, Fig. 1. The machine is now left to itself until the bell n sounds. Then the operator, with the aid of the scissors 0 19, cuts the ribbon and draws the measured length off the drum 7'.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is A ribbon-measuring apparatus comprising a pair of rollers, a train of gearing for oper- 

